This version of "Joseph" was inspired by the Tulane Summer Lyric Production of the musical, directed and choreographed by Diane Lala. Students from the Tulane University Musical Theatre Workshop were directed by Randy Juneau using much of the choreography created by Ms. Lala. Students were under the vocal direction of Michael Howard.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was the second musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. (The first was "The Likes of Us," a musical written in 1965, which only received its first stage performance in 2005).
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This version of "Joseph" was inspired by the Tulane Summer Lyric Production of the musical, directed and choreographed by Diane Lala. Students from the Tulane University Musical Theatre Workshop were directed by Randy Juneau using much of the choreography created by Ms. Lala. Students were under the vocal direction of Michael Howard.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was the second musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. (The first was "The Likes of Us," a musical written in 1965, which only received its first stage performance in 2005).
Based on the "Coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Bible, this light-hearted show was first presented as a fifteen-minute pop cantata at the Colet Court school in London on March 1, 1968. The piece was commissioned by Alan Doggett, head of the school's Music department, for their annual spring concert. Doggett conducted the performance, whose orchestra and the singers consisted of pupils of Colet Court. The production did not have a huge impact when it premiered at the Colet School, but Lloyd Webber's father, William, felt it had the seeds of greatness. He encouraged and arranged for a second performance to take place at his church, Westminster Central Hall, with a revised and expanded format, including a rock group. The boys of Colet School and St. Paul's Junior School sang at the second performance, conducted by Doggett on 12 May 1968. This performance received 'amazing' reviews as a new pop oratorio in London's prestigious Sunday Times. Following the second performance, Novello agreed to publish the work and it was also to be recorded by Decca Records. The third performance took place at St Paul's Cathedral on 9 November 1968. By then it had been expanded to 35 minutes and included several new songs.
In 1970, Lloyd Webber and Rice used the popularity of their second rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, to promote Joseph, which was falsely advertised in America as a sequel to Superstar. The plan of riding on Jesus’ coattails for this ‘technicolor coat’ proved profitable: the Decca recording remained at the top of America’s charts for three months.
[edit] Musical Numbers The songs in the show are:
Prologue Any Dream Will Do Jacob and Sons Joseph's Coat Joseph's Dreams Poor, Poor Joseph One More Angel in Heaven Potiphar Close Every Door Go, Go, Go Joseph A Pharaoh's Story Poor, Poor Pharaoh Song of the King (Seven Fat Cows) Pharaoh's Dreams Explained Stone the Crows Those Canaan Days The Brothers Come To Egypt Grovel, Grovel Who's the Thief? Benjamin Calypso Joseph All the Time Jacob in Egypt Finale: Any Dream Will Do / Give Me My Coloured Coat
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